Comments on the entry: VIEWPOINTS: Make Birmingham a smoke-free city - AL.comhttps://blog.advance.net/cgi-bin/mte/mt-search.cgiindex=comment&template_id=entry_comments_feed&search=&limit=20&affiliate=bama&filter_entry_basename=viewpoints_make_birmingham_a_s&searchall=1&IncludeBlogs=24442012-04-16T20:35:38ZMovable Type Enterprise 4.29-advanceComment on VIEWPOINTS: Make Birmingham a smoke-free citytag:blog.al.com,2015:/birmingham-news-commentary//2444.201652612012-04-16T20:35:38Z2012-04-16T20:35:38ZOk ok Jack! Your very first lead off statement cracked me up! You are using a 1991 statement to argue a subject in 2012 that has had 3 Surgeon General Reports on the most recent on in 2010? The scienceRollTideGuy61Comment on VIEWPOINTS: Make Birmingham a smoke-free citytag:blog.al.com,2015:/birmingham-news-commentary//2444.201651982012-04-16T20:32:37Z2012-04-16T20:32:37ZJack, Jack, Jack....you always seem to show up like an unwanted and unannounced family member. You aren't even IN Alabama. We ALL know that you are paid by Altria to go to different city websites and attack Secondhand smoke ordinancesjeremiah_rastegarComment on VIEWPOINTS: Make Birmingham a smoke-free citytag:blog.al.com,2015:/birmingham-news-commentary//2444.201581272012-04-16T13:15:45Z2012-04-16T13:15:45ZThey have created a fear that is based on nothing’’ World-renowned pulmonologist, president of the prestigious Research Institute Necker for the last decade, Professor Philippe Even, now retired, tells us that he’s convinced of the absence of harm from passivejackenglesComment on VIEWPOINTS: Make Birmingham a smoke-free citytag:blog.al.com,2015:/birmingham-news-commentary//2444.201581032012-04-16T13:13:44Z2012-04-16T13:13:44ZThe entire anti-smoking agenda is based upon lies,deciet and JUNK SCIENCE! To this day they still cant prove smoking causes anything in anyone............Theyve played a shell game with epidemiology for decades to make claims about smoking to the general public.jackenglesComment on VIEWPOINTS: Make Birmingham a smoke-free citytag:blog.al.com,2015:/birmingham-news-commentary//2444.201580202012-04-16T13:08:15Z2012-04-16T13:08:15ZScientific Evidence Shows Secondhand Smoke Is No Danger Written By: Jerome Arnett, Jr., M.D. Published In: Environment & Climate News Publication Date: July 1, 2008 Publisher: http://www.heartland .org/policybot/resul ts/23399/Scientific_ Evidence_Sho... myth-of-second-hand- smoke http://yourdoctorsor ders.com/2009/01/the -myth-of-second-hand -smoke BS Alert: The 'third-handjackenglesComment on VIEWPOINTS: Make Birmingham a smoke-free citytag:blog.al.com,2015:/birmingham-news-commentary//2444.201580082012-04-16T13:07:32Z2012-04-16T13:07:32ZOSHA / NIOSH RESEARCH In 1991 NIOSH { OSHA' research group} Looked into ETS although at the time they recommended reducing ETS exposure they found the studies lacking. NIOSH recognizes that these recent epidemiological studies have several shortcomings: lack ofjackenglesComment on VIEWPOINTS: Make Birmingham a smoke-free citytag:blog.al.com,2015:/birmingham-news-commentary//2444.201487732012-04-15T14:36:53Z2012-04-15T14:36:53ZI can not agree with the idea that we must "protect" workers and the public from smoking. I smoke cigars but not cigarettes and do not smoke inside but the idea that a legal substance is being restricted so muchdoug_allenComment on VIEWPOINTS: Make Birmingham a smoke-free citytag:blog.al.com,2015:/birmingham-news-commentary//2444.201473382012-04-15T12:38:36Z2012-04-15T12:38:36ZWhy not just ban the sale of smokes in the city of bham ? I don't smoke so it doesn't impact me but I do wonder how long before the city will ban smoking in a private home or ondd47937